Web Desk — A Pakistani woman Bushra Ali Shah, 35, performed Haj alone as Saudi government has removed the guardian or ‘mehram’ rule aside. The Haj Ministry has officially allowed women of all ages to perform Haj without having a male guardian, also known as mehram. Earlier women were not allowed to go for Haj without the company of a …

LAHORE: (Web Desk) Amazon chief Jeff Bezos becomes history’s riches man as Pentagon cancells JEDI contract awarded to Microsoft. The shares value of Amazon incrased with the cancellation of JEDI contrat that increased Bezos’s wealth by $8.4 billion. With this, Bezos wealth goes up to $211 billion. The electric car maker Elon Musk is at number 2 in the list …

LAHORE: (Web Desk) Saudi government bans Ummrah pilgrims as Hajj season starts. According to Saudi Hajj ministry 1600 buses will be deputed for the services of Hajis. Only 20 persons will sit in one bus due to coronavirus. The buses will be given red, green, yellow and blue colours for the dentification of the residential tents in Mina.

LAHORE: (Web Desk) Everyone knows that in the worst economic situation caused by the coronavirus, the business of the world’s largest airlines has been badly affected and thousands of workers have lost their jobs. On the other hand, very few people are aware of the fact that in the days of Corona, there are some airlines which have maintained their …

Web Desk — Finance Minister Abdul Hafeez Shaikh directed the concerned authorities to contain rising prices of eggs, wheat flour and tomatoes to give benefit to end consumers. While chairing the meeting of the National Price Monitoring Committee (NPMC), Hafeez directed to take all possible measures to bring down the food inflation. Minister for Industries & Production Hammad Azhar briefed …

Web Desk — According to a report published in Express Tribune, Pakistan LNG Limited (PLL) has received all-time highest bid at 32.48% of Brent to secure cargoes for the month of February. The report says that Pakistan has to purchase the costliest liquefied natural gas (LNG) in February 2021 at 32.48% of Brent with a 31-day gap between tender opening …

Web Desk — The telecom sector has been generous enough to contribute to the national exchequer 129 percent in the fiscal year ended in June 2020 as compared to a year ago owing to Covid-19 lockdown, the Pakistan Telecom Authority (PTA) has reported. Sharing its Annual Report 2020, PTA highlighted that the surge in demand for telecom services due to lockdown …

Web Desk — Pakistan’s pace legend and former captain Wasim Akram backs white-ball skipper Babar Azam to also take over the test team’s captaincy from the New Zealand tour and urged him to be more assertive. Azam, who captains the one-day and T-20 national teams, is the top contender to replace current Test skipper Azhar Ali ahead of Pakistan’s tour of New …

Web Desk — India’s team and support staff all tested negative to coronavirus (Covid-19) after five players apparently breached their bio-security bubble, officials have reported as capacity at the Sydney Cricket Ground was slashed over coronavirus concerns. The quintet — Rohit Sharma, Rishabh Pant, Shubman Gill, Prithvi Shaw and Navdeep Saini — were filmed dining inside a Melbourne restaurant on …

Web Desk — Pakistani cricket star Shahid Afridi with a massive fanbase often faces interesting incidents while travelling around the world and Pakistan.  In a recent viral video an old lady is seen calling him for a picture with her dauthers. “Bhai zara baat suno, yeh larkiyan keh rahi hain tum Shahid Afridi ho. Aik picture to lelo.” (Hello, please come here. …